David Eckard
@swordedge
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RE: Episode 13: Discussion and Speculation

Considering that they nearly stole a fighter, need a high tech security system for everything with a jump drive. Due to tech writer Mat Honan getting...

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RE: What is in the Darvano System

That 60 km Rock can hold a LOT of ordinance and fighters. They just have to make them. And they need to add a lot of security to those fighters.

10 years ago
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RE: Episode 12 SPOILER Thread. Discussion

I’ve just finished reading Episode 12 and you haven’t lost the touch (looking forward for next adventure). Nevertheless I must make a small remark: th...

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RE: Episode 12 SPOILER Thread. Discussion

Tanna fuel base is the small moon that surprised josh and loki, and Telles and the first squad saved because of its value the cargo ship went back fu...

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RE: Episode 13: Discussion and Speculation

Do Jung battle ships only use non space warp FTL drives? Only the battle station has those?

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RE: Episode 13: Discussion and Speculation

What Jung systems are around Tanna. Scouts find out Convert some of earths asteroids to jump ships! Attack those platforms from system Kupier belt....

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RE: Episode 12 SPOILER Thread. Discussion

One more thing. Have Dumar think of this. Need to scout systems around Tanna with local pilots doing most of this work. Need to know the same thing...

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RE: Episode 12 SPOILER Thread. Discussion

I had to do a bit of driving and I know me so I waited till tonight to read the book (about 65 pages an hour using my kindle time and the 383 pages li...

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RE: Episode 12 SPOILER Thread. Discussion

I absolutely agree with you, I would prefer to serve under a young officer who is acting/lacking in his rank but has a lot of combat experience as opp...

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RE: Ep: 12 discussion and speculation

In one of these forum posts is where it was mentioned.

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RE: Star Citizen

Remembers when 20-40 fps was a joy!

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RE: Anti-matter energy

Ran a calculation through Wolfram Alpha on that. One Kg of matter translates to 8.988 x10^16 Joules of energy or over 21 megatons of TNT. That much ...

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RE: Anti-matter energy

I wish I could remember or find the TV program where antimatter propulsion was discussed. I believe the host was a Japanese-American named Michiko? s...

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RE: What I've been wondering

Limited range. The problem is that you need FTL communication and the only way that exist is with drones or craft that are FTL capable. Even the moo...

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RE: Other SF Books (while we're waiting)

Mike Moscoe’s Kris Longknife series is a pretty good companion to Weber’s Honorverse or Campbell’s Lost Fleet series. I think she has MANY similariti...

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RE: How much should I reveal on this site?

Really, I think anything is too much. The suspense is seriously killing me though! Once a new episode comes out, I usually finish it in less than two ...

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RE: Alternative uses for jump tech

Now that I think about it, drones that jump in, attached to hull, jump out repeatedly. Every time it jumps, a section of hull jumps with it. If brea...

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RE: Alternative uses for jump tech

Actually, it might work quite well as a weapon. Surround enemy warship with tiny drones that are hard to spot and even harder to shoot, create field, ...

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RE: What is in the Darvano System

Siggy, you actually did research? Stunned. And that statement was quite some time ago in a system that repaired the Aurora very quickly even though ...

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RE: What is in the Darvano System

@ david the Wallach was kkv’ed in orbit of corinair, the campaglia was the initial capital ship that was impaled with the auroura if you recall in he...

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RE: What is in the Darvano System

Siggie What makes you think putting emitters on an asteroid, then jumping it is wasteful? Of all the SF series I have read, it is one of the best wa...

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RE: Ep 12 Release date

The fast schedule he mentioned was an initial impression of voice dictation. Once it and Ryk are trained, it should be able to type about as fast as ...

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RE: New weapons in DARPA

I did a quick calculation. If you discharged 52.22 kWh of energy in .1 seconds, that is 1.88 Gigawatts. That should make a projectile go fast. You'...

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RE: New weapons in DARPA

I don’t think the batteries as such would be nearly as dangerous. Most likely it would us very large capacitors powered by turbines. Super caps. Thi...

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RE: Fabricators

Before long, we will probably start to see parts being made on order, instead of having the parts in stock, for pieces that rarely need replacing. Pa...

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RE: Couple things

When it comes to hitting the target, that depends on the target in question. Hitting a ship that is 1 km long and dodging would be hard for a .9c pro...

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RE: Book Editing

I was informed by someone that you print it out because that is still the best way to do editing marks.

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RE: Book Editing

Someone told a group of us how he had at least five people proofreading his book. All of them and the publishing company missed the most obvious error...

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RE: Episode 11- discussion. Spoilers included in this thread.

Jumping Rebel(Karuzari) Rock and Yamaro Rock to the Sol sector is the only way the Alliance will be able to win. They need to produce simple ships wi...

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